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Thanks for the ideas.picbits said:I'd look at something like an FTDI USB/RS232 converter, a PIC and some simple software.
I made something similar a couple of years ago - the PIC just fed a constant stream of data through its serial port which was converted to USB through a cheapo USB/RS232 converter. My front end was a simple Visual Basic program which wrote the values to a file.
Cost for the whole project - less than 10 of my hard earned British pounds
Ron H said:Thanks for the ideas.
I thought about building my own hardware, but I have no experience with PICs (soon to change), and I'm in a hurry.
OK, thanks, Nigel. I'm seriously considering Blueroom's Inchworm and Firefly, as soon as one of his dealers gets parts in stock. In the meantime, I'm wanting to get on with the battery project.Nigel Goodwin said:My tutorials have all you need, and include reading analogue inputs and sending them via serial to a PC. It's really very easy to do.
Ron H said:OK, thanks, Nigel. I'm seriously considering Blueroom's Inchworm and Firefly, as soon as one of his dealers gets parts in stock. In the meantime, I'm wanting to get on with the battery project.